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30's - 50's 7 53.85%
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Default 04-19-2005, 11:34 PM

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Knowing all the neighbors on the block, never having to lock your doors, being able to go to sleep with the windows open.
This stuff tends to change upon location though. I mean, I sleep fine with my windows open and I quite often leave doors unlocked around the house, car etc.....

However, I wouldn't do the same in South Auckland.

....I'm with Mad on this though - I love the now, it's a good time. 18 drinking age, high-speed internet, porn whenever I want, weed whenever I want, liquor whenever I want. Great parties, good music, hot girls.
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 05:39 AM

yea, and fight the wars. lol
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 08:24 AM

The world will end up like the one you see in Minority Report in my opinion but for now, things are ok to me. Every decade has good and bad things, the thing is, we adapt to these things some way or other. There'll always be aspects you hate and love but seeing we don't live forever, best make the most of it all.


This isn't really related apart from the faces are from different eras but I've been looking at all these celebrity-style mug-shots from the past, pretty funny some of them...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/index.html the_finger:


That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest - Henri David Thoreau
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 09:23 AM

the fifties suck... most racist decade ever... no civil rights and people like elvis and dick clark were getting paid to steal culture...
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 09:26 AM

Things are ok personally for me now, but in the future, I don't think it will be so rosy. All these gadgets that make our lives better keep us locked away. I believe in our lifetimes, we'll see a major energy crisis followed by massive economic collapse around the world. So if that happens, i'd probably rather live in the 60 etc. when gas was abundant and cheap, and everyone could live peacefully in the suburbs.
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 10:00 AM

isn't most of the world suffering from "massive economic collapse" on a daily basis?...
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 10:06 AM

To an extent. My comments were directed more toward the western world though.

India and China are booming right now. North America is slowing down but the economies are still growing. We'll probably see a recession pretty soon, but what i'm talking about is economic collapse for the US dollar based on overwhelming debt and an energy crisis. We see many countries have already moved to using the Euro instead of the dollar, and I would exepect this to continue as the US dollar keeps sinking.

Perhaps i'm just being pessimistic.
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 10:50 AM

is the glass half empty or half full, its all your take on things. Ilike it right now. granted i got away with alot more than todays kids do and I had a hell of alot of fun doing it. There is an old saying, the more things change the more they stay the same
Way back when.....people thought the jitterbug was the end of civilization, then it was Elvis, then Black Sabbath now Marlyin Manson. Its all the same just a different date
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 11:44 AM

lol go look in your moms year books all the girls are ugly
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 12:51 PM

note: most music was much more insidious propoganda back then. and what the fuck is so heartfelt about frank sinatra?
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 01:11 PM

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and what the fuck is so heartfelt about frank sinatra?
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Default 04-20-2005, 02:37 PM

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note: most music was much more insidious propoganda back then. and what the fuck is so heartfelt about frank sinatra?
Dude..... rolleyes:
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 03:03 PM

90s - current day

fuck living during the great depression, world war 2 and the start of the cold war.

Maybe if you said 60s-70s I may of reconsidered my decision.


  
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Default Re: The 2000's suck. - 04-20-2005, 05:58 PM

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and none of this modern music.
Yes. Agreed beyond words. I'm going through a little 60's phase..I'm listening to all the stuff my dad listened to when he was a hippy hipster, and it just always rings in my mind how much more talented those musical artists were compared to the fuckers and screamers we've got today.
  
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Default 04-20-2005, 09:15 PM

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lol go look in your moms year books all the girls are ugly
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